Paraphrase any question with T5 (Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer) - Pretrained model and training script provided

Using this program you can generate paraphrases of any given question.

A detailed Medium blogpost explaining necessary steps can be found here.

Input

The input to our program will be any general question that you can think of -

Which course should I take to get started in data Science?

Ouput

The output will be paraphrased versions of the same question. Paraphrasing a question means, you create a new question that expresses the same meaning using a different choice of words.

Paraphrased Questions generated from the T5 Model :

0: What should I learn to become a data scientist?
1: How do I get started with data science?
2: How would you start a data science career?
3: How can I start learning data science?
4: How do you get started in data science?
5: What's the best course for data science?
6: Which course should I start with for data science?
7: What courses should I follow to get started in data science?
8: What degree should be taken by a data scientist?
9: Which course should I follow to become a Data Scientist?  

Inference code

The t5-pretrained-question-paraphraser.ipynb notebook has all the code to run the model on any given question of your choice and generate paraphrases for it.

Training the model

The training and validation datasets are present in the paraphrase_data folder. Install the necessary libraries from requirements.txt. Use any GPU machine and run train.py

Training this model for 2 epochs (default) took about 20 hrs on p2.xlarge (AWS ec2)